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Believe it or not, the keyboard we use today – known as QWERTY (because of the first six letters in the top row, on the left hand) – was chosen because it made typing slower. This happened because the first machines, with rudimentary technology, stopped the types when typing was too fast. When the American printer Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890) invented the typewriter, in 1868, he tried to order the letters in alphabetical order – as in the second row, where we have an almost complete sequence: DFGHJKL. The positional changes were made to force the typist to hit the keys at a suitable speed, without shuffling the type. Therefore, the E and the I, two of the most frequent letters in the English language, were removed from the second row, the most accessible. The letter A, another of the most common, was relegated to the left little finger, the least skilled of all.
In 1932, after 20 years of study, August Dvorak, also an American, created the keyboard that bears his name, extremely efficient for the English language: 3,000 words can be written with the letters in the main row (against 50 on the QWERTY keyboard). and the right hand is the most used. Some manufacturers even held competitions between the two keyboards to determine which was better. Unfortunately, the typist who used QWERTY had memorized the entire keyboard while the other was still picking corn. As a result, QWERTY ended up becoming the industry standard and remains so today.